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Manuel Alcala Kovalski
I have made interactive visualizations viewed by thousands of people, authored he Brookings branded R visualization package, and written over 40 blog posts
Education
B.A., Mathematical Economics (minor in Statistics)
University of Pennsylvania, Class of 2019
Philadelphia, PA
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- Relevant coursework: Probability, Mathematical Statistics, Stochastic Processes, Forecasting, and Computer Programming
Work Experience
Senior Research Assistant
The Brookings Institution - Hutchins Center on Fiscal & Monetary Policy
Washington, D.C.
Current - 2019
- Streamlined data collection by web scraping in R, automated data cleaning, modeled data, and communicated results through parametrized reports
- Led data science trainings on R package development, data manipulation in R using the Tidyverse, and version control using Git and GitHub for staff across the entire organization
- Built R Shiny applications to communicate insights from macroeconomic data
Summer Undergraduate Minority Research Scholar
Leonard Davis Institute
University of Pennsylvania
2018
- Independently analyzed data on 322,264 hospital admissions admissions using logistic regression in Stata
Undergraduate Researcher
Health Management and Policy Department
University of Miami
2018 - 2017
- Conducted data analysis on projects related to health services research using R, Stata, and Python
Publications
The relationships between marijuana use and exercise among young and middle-aged adults
Preventive Medicine
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2021